pythoness
Example Sentences
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“Carriages without horses shall go,” is the “prophecy” attributed to that mythical fifteenth century pythoness, Mother Shipton; really the ex post facto forgery of Charles Hindley, the second-hand bookseller, in 1862.
From The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper
Not a trace of the sacred madness that uplifted the Delphian pythoness or provoked the delirious visions of a Jeremiah or an Ezekiel!
From The Secret of Sarek by Maurice Leblanc
She looked like a mad thing—like a crazed pythoness.
From The Unseen Bridgegroom or, Wedded For a Week by May Agnes Fleming
At some time in the past she seems to have been also a pythoness: the spirits of the gods possessed her and spoke through her lips.
From Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation by Lafcadio Hearn
The scene in the glen, the image of the unprepossessing and mysterious pythoness, and the substance and manner of the sinister warning she communicated, were indeed fixed in her memory ineffaceably.
From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various
